“MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. and COLUMBUS, Ohio – August 24, 2010 – NetEx, the leader in WAN optimization software, and Veeam Software, innovative provider of data protection, disaster recovery and systems management solutions for VMware virtual datacenter environments, announced today they will partner to supply free HyperIP® software to customers who license Veeam Backup & Replication for VMware. This exclusive agreement entitles Veeam users to a free one-year subscription to the 2Mb/s HyperIP (VM edition), a virtual appliance that improves the performance of moving large amounts of data across a WAN. Solution provider partners will be given the opportunity to deploy HyperIP with Veeam Backup & Replication beginning immediately. New customers who license Veeam Backup & Replication after July 1, 2010 are eligible for two complimentary 2Mb/s one-year subscriptions of HyperIP. The program will be available through July 2011. The partnership addresses the challenges of varying network configurations and conditions that can be common in virtualization and cloud computing environments, including packet loss, latency, and jitter.”

“Veeam Backup & Replication is the first enterprise-ready solution that combines backup and replication in a single product for fast recovery in VMware ESX and ESXi environments, delivering near continuous data protection (CDP) at a cost that is 80 percent lower than traditional CDP. Veeam Backup & Replication combines the power of virtualization and the innovation of Veeam to provide Virtualized-Powered Data Protection, or vPower. Veeam’s patent-pending technology enables instant VM recovery, universal application-item recovery and automated recovery verification. NetEx’s award-winning HyperIP is a software-only, virtualization-ready WAN optimization solution, ideal for moving large data sets across WANs securely, swiftly and seamlessly. Patent- pending technology accelerates and optimizes industry-leading data replication and file transfer applications by aggregating multiple data replication applications over a shared connection while mitigating the inherent network latency and network disruption for long-distance remote TCP data transmissions. The full version of HyperIP supports long-distance data transfers at up to 800 Mb/s, the highest performance of any WAN optimization solution on the market, and 25 to more than 100 percent faster than competitive products. Transfer speed is optimized for the full range of data management applications, including backup & remote replication and business continuance/disaster recovery (BC/DR). NetEx offers HyperIP for cloud infrastructures as a software-only configuration, enabling customers to quickly deploy the acceleration software into their existing VMware infrastructures.”

Case Study

“The Business Challenge Members of the IT team at Veeam Software experience many of the same challenges as their counterparts in other virtualization and cloud computing environments. One of these challenges is backing up and replicating data over a wide-area network (WAN) that spans a great distance. In this case, the WAN covers roughly 5,000 miles, linking Veeam offices in the United States with offices in Europe. Since the network latency between the offices is roughly 150 to 250 milliseconds, resulting in unnecessarily long full backups, the IT team conducted an experiment. Veeam team members had less than 50 hours (from late Friday evening to early Monday morning so they wouldn’t interfere with employees’ work) to back up a 20-gigabyte virtual machine from one office to the other. Obviously, they used Veeam Backup & Replication. After 47 hours, only 16 gigabytes had transferred (at an average speed of 100 kilobytes per second). Since that was not an acceptable timeframe, Veeam team members decided to optimize the WAN using NetEx’s HyperIP for VMware WAN optimization software. The NetEx/Veeam Solution Veeam’s IT team experienced significant success. A full backup of that same virtual machine took 30 hours (at an average speed of 193 kilobytes per second). That’s almost two times faster, thanks to HyperIP. An incremental backup conducted the next day lasted only 54 minutes. HyperIP software is a virtualization-ready WAN solution, ideal for moving large data sets securely, swiftly, and seamlessly. It accelerates and optimizes backup and replication applications while mitigating network latency, packet loss, and network disruptions for long-distance transmission control protocol (TCP) data transmissions. HyperIP supports long-distance data transfers at up to 800 megabytes per second, which is 25 to more than 100 percent faster than competing products. Transfer speed is optimized for the full range of data management applications, including backup & remote replication and business continuance/disaster recovery. The Results Doubles speed of full backup – When data or virtual systems must be transferred over a WAN, Veeam finds that HyperIP delivers a significant performance boost. The company’s IT team discovered that a full backup of a 20-gigabyte virtual machine was two times faster when HyperIP was in place. Boosts Performance Significantly – HyperIP aggregates multiple data replication applications over a shared WAN connection, shielding against packet loss, jitter, congestion, and other network disruptions. It also reduces the impact of high-latency networks for remote TCP/IP data transmissions.”

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